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Episode 71: The Deep State Construct (EDS Part 10)
We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality.This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined b...
Episode 70: The Inner Sanctum (WG-SA Part 3)
Aaron and Seamus discuss the Security Research Staff (SRS), the inner sanctum of the CIA’s Office of Security. We also discuss James McCord’s friend Lee Pennington and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episo...
The State of the Exception - August Update
Ben Howard returns to join Aaron and Seamus for our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session!
Episode 69: The Higher Immorality (EDS Part 9)
We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state.This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new...
Episode 68: Secret Agent Man (WG-SA Part 2)
Aaron and Seamus discuss the deep state personage of James McCord and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
August Zoom Update/Q and A Session!
We're going to have our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session here in the last days of August. on Wednesday at 9PM Eastern. We'll give some updates and answer patron questions. So...please put your questions in the comments below!
Episode 67: The Power Elite (EDS Part 8)
We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state.This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joine...
Watergate - Secret Agenda - Timeline Doc
A supplemental PDF doc that lays out and builds on a Jim Hougan and Peter Dale Scott timeline of Watergate based on Jim's masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Episode 66: A Strange Chronology (WG-SA Part 1)
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I created and posted a PDF of the timeline that might be helpful f...
Trump Raid: Deep State or Justified?
I went on London's TRT World to talk about the deep state and the raid on Trump's home. I feel like I got to talk about the deep state in a serious way that is all too uncommon in "the West."
Episode 65: The Dual State (EDS Part 7)
We discuss the dual state and Professor Michael Glennon’s double government.This is Episode 7 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness...
Episode 64: Empire in Denial (EDS Part 6)
We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism.This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who i...
Peter Dale Scott Update...
The venerable professor has given me the okay to inform you all that he has COVID. It is too early for any prognosis, but needless to say, we are pausing production of the oral history series and everything else until he has recovered.If you would like to offer any well-wishes to Peter, please put them in the comments ...
Watergate and Vietnam — A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixo...
Episode 63: Mythmaking in the Empire (EDS Part 5)
We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire.This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the ...
Episode 62: The Deep Politics of Heroin w/Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy
Released in conjunction with the upcoming publication of Peter's "lost" (read "stolen by the CIA in 1970") article originally intended for Ramparts, we present a 2011 debate between the two top experts on the Postwar Southeast Asian heroin traffic: Professors Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy.I add ...
Episode 61: Imperial Hegemony (EDS Part 4)
We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA![We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro]This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State...
Episode 60: How the Exception Became the Rule (EDS Part 3)
We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism!This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McG...
July Zoom Update/Q+A
A Brief update from Aaron and Seamus...along with a number of patron questions!
Episode 59: Watergate and Vietnam w/Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixo...
Questions? Submit them for July Zoom Update w/Q and A!!
We have a blockbuster double episode scheduled to come out to tomorrow!Also, since I am going on vacation for the last week of July, we are having our Light Bringer July Zoom session this week--most likely on Wednesday afternoon. Details and link coming soon!So submit your questions here, and we will do our best to ans...
Episode 58: Deep American Politics (EDS Part 2)
We discuss deep politics in the history of the USA. As per Peter Dale Scott, deep politics refers to “all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.” This is Part 2 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new bo...
Episode 57: High Crimes of Empire (EDS Part 1)
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main...
JFK Debate Response w/Jim DiEugenio
This video is being released in conjunction with the publication of James DiEugenio's and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass--the book of the film. The video features James DiEugenio and Aaron Good discussing issues raised in the JFK assassination debate between DiEugenio and Robert Buzzanc...
Episode 56: Battleground Indonesia - Part 4: "Foreign Policy Can Kill Us" (Audio Version)
This is Part 4 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are again joined by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. The discussion picks up from the last episode where JFK’s plans for a sovereign West Papua under UN auspices were ...
The JFK Assassination Debate w/Jim DiEugenio and Robert Buzzanco
This video is being released in conjunction with the publication of James DiEugenio's and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass--the book of the film. The video features an American Exception podcast debate on the JFK assassination between James DiEugenio and Robert Buzzanco. DiEugenio is the ...
Episode 55: Battleground Indonesia - Part 3: "The Greatest Statesman of the 20th Century" (Audio Version)
This is Part 3 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are joined this time by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. Most notably, they discuss how American deep statesman Allen Dulles was able to utilize murderous clandestine ar...
June Zoom Update/Q+A
Here's the audio from the Zoom session of Wednesday, June 30. This discussion features Aaron, Ben Norton, and Seamus McGuinness! We talk about the upcoming 'Empire and the Deep State' series and then answer some questions from our patrons.
Episode 54: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 12)
This is the 12th installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott—the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.In this episode, we delve further into the confusion surrounding the stru...
